On my Win11 machine, the explorer contextmenu "Edit with Notepad++" is no longer available.

I found in the changelog this:
Use new modern shell "Edit with Notepad++" of Windows 11 instead of hijacking "Pin to Quick access".

But it does not work for me: the menu item is neither on the root menu available nor in the "Show more options" menu:

Here is a screenshot from a Win10 machine with Notepad++ 8.4.8 to show what I mean:

I have to admit: the Np++ update was installed automatically by our Endpoint protection. But I want to avoid uninstalling/reinstalling it if not necessary.
Is there any additional information that I could provide?

Similar question here, but about Windows 10: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18140/how-to-get-windows-explorer-right-click-menu-open-edit-with-notepad